Echoes In The Ether

04/09/2024

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

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04/09/2024

Aboriginal Rock Art (2000-4000 years old) on Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station, Australia. Art depicts Wandjina which are mythical spirits from Australian Aboriginal mythology. These are found in Kimberley region of Australia.

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04/08/2024

04/08/2024

Roman Era Skull found impaled with a large Spike (1st-2nd Century AD).

This nail piercing the skull is probably so called the ex*****on nail. Skull, separated from the body of the punished person after death, was nailed and hanged on in a visible place.

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04/08/2024

Ramesses The Great!

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Temple of Luxor
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04/08/2024

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04/07/2024

Remains of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine in the Roman Forum in Rome. Built between 308-312 CE, the 35 metres high basilica was the largest building in the Forum (with an area of about 5,600 square meters), and the last Roman basilica built in the city

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04/07/2024

A Funerary Masks!

- Late Ptolemaic Period
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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04/07/2024

The Ancient Roman aqueduct in modern-day Turkey, dating back thousands of years, is a testament to the incredible engineering and architectural skills of the Roman Empire. These aqueducts were designed to transport fresh water to densely populated areas, and they were a significant improvement over the earlier structures built by civilizations in Egypt and India. The Roman aqueducts were constructed over a period of 500 years, from 312 BC to AD 226, and were funded by both public and private sources. Some of the most famous Roman rulers, such as Augustus, Caligula, and Trajan, commissioned the construction of these aqueducts.

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04/06/2024

The holy triad of the Osiris family.

The three solid gold figures represent Osiris, surrounded by his son, Horus, and his wife, Isis. Horus and Isis extend their hands toward their father and husband’s shoulder in a protective gesture.

Pendant with the Name of King Osorkon II. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty ca. 872-837 BC.

in the Louvre.

04/06/2024

Polychrome glass vessel in the form of a "bulti"-fish: this is the most spectacular of a small group offish-form vessels, all representing the "bulti"-fish common in the Nile and a standard feature of Egyptian decorative art. The body is core-built in blue glass, matt finish, and is decorated with simple festoons in groups of three or four white lines followed by a yellow line. The tail decorations are in the same colours. The dorsal fin is composed of a series of heavy threads in the body blue, white, yellow, and turquoise-blue. The front fins are each composed of one light and one darker blue thread. The front ventral fins are made from one white and one yellow thread each while the rear ventral fin is of turquoise-blue glass. A yellow thread outlines the mouth. The eyes are white opaque circles with the pupils represented by black thread loops. The fish is assembled from several fragments.

Excavated/Findspot: Amarna, el-

This vessel was found in a medium-sized private house at El-Amarna, found buried under a plaster floor together with two glass jugs and some metal objects.

Fish-form vessels were common in many media at this time - the glass examples are but versions of others - but how they were used is not evident. They seem to have been ointment vessels and must have been furnished with stands as they are incapable of standing by themselves.

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04/05/2024

Tutankhamun"s veiled middle coffin, photographed within the tomb of Tutankhamun by Harry Burton (Burton photograph 0718), 17th October, 1925.
Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Howard Carter"s excavation journal writes; "early this morning Burton completed successfully the photographic records of the second coffin, covered with its shroud and floral garlands, as it rested in situ in the shell of the outermost coffin". (Carter no. 255)

04/04/2024

The piercing gaze of ancient Greeks sculptures. About 2000 years old.

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04/04/2024

Pendants of Queen Ahhotep, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

These pendants were found in the queen’s tomb in Dra" Abu el-Naga in western Thebes together with many other pieces of jewellery. The small rosettes with petals of turquoise, lapis lazuli and carnelian probably decorated a tissue, while the drop-shaped pendants and circular pendants with amethysts were parts of collars.

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04/04/2024

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt"s oldest pyramids. (Image credit: Getty Images)

04/04/2024

A 17th century feathered cape created by the Tupinambá people of Brazil, now housed at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Only 11 Tupinambá feather capes from the 16th and 17th centuries exist today, and most, unlike this one, have suffered significant physical damage over time

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04/04/2024

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04/03/2024

Pyramid of Userkaf at Saqqara

04/03/2024

Andesite jar with lug handles
Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty (?), c. 3000-2625 B.C.
From Deir el Ballas or Naqadah

Penn Museum (Collections Storage), Philadelphia. E1326

04/03/2024

Offering stelae for sisters, Keti & Senet
Middle Kingdom, 11th-12th Dynasty, c. 2061–1900 B.C.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 95

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04/02/2024

Roman Army Knife (201-300 AD); has a spoon, knife, fork, spike, spatula and pick allowing the user to even clean between their teeth after eating. It was part of the equipment of Roman legions.

This folding eating gadget has a three-pronged fork, a spoon,a spatula,a pick, a spike and an iron knife that has eroded away. There is a hinge to allow each item to be folded out when it was needed, or folded away for ease of transporting it.

The spike might of helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in scraping sauce out of narrow-necked bottles. Some have even suggested the pick with the tiny spoon on the end could have been used to remove earwax.

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04/02/2024

Chambord Staircase; a spiral staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1516 CE; at Chambord Castle (Château de Chambord), dated 1519-1547 CE, France.

It features a design concept that was unique at time: two spirals that intertwine, giving outside observers impression of a single structure.

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04/02/2024

A bear body made from clay with a bear skull in between its paws, made during the Upper Paleolithic (between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago) and found in the Montespan cave in France. Riddled with holes from spear points, it was possibly used to teach hunting, or perhaps used for a ritual

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03/29/2024

The last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom!

✨ Unas ✨

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Pyramid of Unas
Saqqara

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03/28/2024

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03/28/2024

The Eyes of Sibiu are the iconic eyebrow dormers on the roofs of Sibiu"s houses in Romania. Built mostly between the 15th and 19th centuries, the eyes, which were used as a ventilation system for the houses" attics, have given Sibiu the nickname of

03/28/2024

A brick from the Ziggurat at Ur (4000 years old) with a cuneiform inscription and the footprints of a dog who walked across the brick before it had hardened. Excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley.

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03/27/2024

Unicorn Renaissance Ring, made in Germany or Italy, c.1550.

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